LENIN COLLECTION.

I agree with the further conditions, e x c e p t  f o r  o n e :  at the congress each comrade has the right to make particular amendments. I remind you that Frey [Lenin] when I was in Munich declared at o n e  g a t h e r i n g  i n  h i s  a p a r t m e n t  t h a t  h e  d o e s  n o t  k n o w where the demarcation line lies between questions of a general and particular character. Precisely because he does not know this, I myself begin to get confused on this account and ask the commission to express itself more precisely.

In that case I wish the commission every success.

Your G. V.

I will certainly find and send the letter on the land cutouts.
Did you receive the article by L. I. [Ortodoks]? L. I. [Ortodoks] is starving, and she should be paid for the article.

1) V. P. Zasulich lived under a Romanian passport in the name of Veliki Dmitrievna Kirova.
2) Considerations.
3) That's where the dog is buried.
4) Plekhanov is apparently alluding to Vladimir Ilyich, who came abroad in 1895 for negotiations with the "Liberation of Labor" Group and met with G. V. Plekhanov.
5) The article by Ortodoks — D. I. Axelrod "On Some Philosophical Exercises" of certain "critics" was published in No. 4 of *Zarya*.

LENIN. LETTER TO AXELROD.

Dear P. B.!

How is your health after the journey? Have you recovered from the wandering life and from the "reaction" which you were expecting when you left here?

V. Dm. [Zasulich] sent you the program of G. V. [Plekhanov] and our draft project of "commission settlement" of the matter by means of an arbitration Commission sui generis. This project, it seems, is falling through due to G. V.'s [Plekhanov's] unwillingness, but I do not yet know this precisely. I would be interested to know what impression the new draft of G. V. [Plekhanov] made on you, and which of the two projects do you now incline toward?

Your pamphlet has o n l y  n o w  begun to be copied: up to now the copyist has been occupied with copying for *Iskra* due to Tsvetov's absence. The affairs of *Iskra* are proceeding very slowly: in March only one issue will come out. Apparently, in publishing your pamphlet here some delay is inevitable: if you really do not want this, — let us know, and then it will be possible to send it to Geneva. If the speed is not so important to you, then with us, after the completion of copying and after Tsvetov [Blumenfeld's] arrival, the pamphlet will go to typesetting.

22/III 02.

LENIN COLLECTION.

More on the program. We would consider the submission of it to a v o t e  o f  t h e  e n t i r e  L e a g u e (and not just the editorial board, respectively a printed polemic between ourselves) to be very undesirable (although in case of failure of the attempt at agreement this would not be easy to avoid). What is your opinion?

I shake your hand firmly and wish you health.

Your [Lenin]

1) I.e. from Munich, after the editorial meeting on the C.D.R.P. program.
2) Of a certain kind.
3) Axelrod was preparing an article which he intended to publish as a separate pamphlet — as an appendix to *Iskra*. This article appeared only in 1907, under the title "The Origin among us of Bourgeois Democracy as an Independent Revolutionary Force," in the collection of articles by P. B. Axelrod "The Struggle of Socialist and Bourgeois Tendencies."
4) Tsvetov — pseudonym of P. S. Blumenfeld. At this time managed the printing shop and transport of *Iskra*. In mid-March 1902 was arrested at the border. On 18 August 1902 escaped from the Kiev prison together with 14 other *Iskrovtsy*.
5) League — the Foreign League of Russian Revolutionary Social Democracy, an organization created by *Iskra* of members of *Iskra* organizations and those sympathetic to it who were abroad. In the course of the struggle within the editorial board of *Iskra* around the program draft, the idea arose that in case of failure to reach agreement within the editorial board, the dispute should be decided by discussion and voting of the "League." This idea was, however, soon abandoned and never implemented.